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“I want to give credit to Bill Mollison and David Holmgren for creating the 12 Permaculture Design Principles, and to Adam Smith for being the father of Capitalism. The foundations they laid has benefitted billions of people across generations. Respectfully, I have gone beyond the work of these men – far beyond. And I have done that by standing on their shoulders, so to speak. What I have done that’s new and novel is pair permaculture design principles with capitalism as opposed to viewing the two as mutually exclusive. I have also infused my own observations and insights about natural phenomena into the Permaculture Economics framework. Furthermore, I’ve created a definite framework – a set of well thought out principles for policymakers, based on all of this. What I have created is not simply the economics of permaculture, or economics viewed through a permaculture lens, or permaculture plus capitalism. No, I have created an entirely new principles-based system that was inspired by but not exclusively dependent on Permaculture and Capitalism. It is new and novel, and it has a life of its own, and it will one day be the standard of a one global society. Permaculture Economics is unique- greater than the sum of its parts. The implementation of this system, globally, is essential to bringing about a new order of the world.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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“To avert climate crises, it's important that humanity protects and restores natural carbon sinks, like forests and wetlands. But modern advancements in architecture, materials science, and construction give us the ability to make our modern cities into carbon sinks. We have the technologies, the knowledge, and the capabilities to make cities more valuable to the natural ecosystem than forests are.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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“Nature is really good at capital productivity and capital allocation. Every leaf on every tree is positioned to maximize photosynthesis. Every root on every tree is positioned to maximize nutrient sequestration. And all of the leaves and all of the roots live in service to each other.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“3d printers use less material, labor and energy yet they're more effective than substractive manufacturing machines. At full potential and systems scale, they achieve greater results in less time. When something does more with less, it's a good investment. And when that's employed on a systems level, theres a multiplicative benefit effect.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“Inheritance is a natural phenomena. Every tree in every forest is first expected to productively utilize the inheritance it receives from prior generations of trees and other life forms. And every tree in every forest is expected to provide an inheritance of new substance created through growth for subsequent generations of trees and other life forms. In ecological systems, there is a correlation between inheritance and growth, each facilitating the other. Economic systems should function in the same way.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“How do you design a garden. Well the intentional placement of boundaries and the intentional facilitation of interactions has a lot to do with it. The same is true in an economic ecosystem. The intentional placement of boundaries and the intentional facilitation of interactions has a lot to do with the success of an economic ecosystem. This is one reason why Permaculture Economics is so effective.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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“A purely capitalist ecosystem is like a wild forest — It’s beautiful and great and productive. But the application of design principles which utilize the natural capabilities already there will result in a luscious fruit garden that is more beautiful, more great, and more productive. A permaculture economy is that luscious fruit garden.”

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“Capitalism is great at facilitating the maximization of production — regarding efficiency only as it effects the profit of the producer and the profit of the buyer in any given transaction. But permaculture economics is great at facilitating the maximization of productivity — regarding efficiency more holistically and measuring according to multiplicative value effects.”

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“Mayflower-Plymouth has created The Permaculture Index as an alternative to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P, the Nasdaq and the Nikkei. The purpose of The Permaculture Index is to provide a more holistic representation of the health of the economy. And then we have several sub-indices which aim to present a more holistic representation of specific markets.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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“I think Cryptocurrency tokens are only valuable in small naturally occurring social ecosystems where they serve as a reward for adding value exclusively in that ecosystem and where they serve as a method of acquiring value exclusively in that ecosystem. To transfer purchasing power out of that small naturally occurring ecosystem would require a conversion of the token into a government fiat currency.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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“Capitalism is great at facilitating the maximization of production — regarding efficiency only as it effects the profit of the producer and the profit of the buyer in any given transaction. But permaculture economics is great at facilitating the maximization of productivity — regarding efficiency holistically and messing according to multiplicative value effects.”

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“To speak in nature's language, we must prioritize bio-based structural materials; biopolymers. Biopolymers are natural polymers produced by the cells of living organisms. We're already utilizing them in products, pharma, and even in fashion. But to deploy them on the architectural scale, we need to invest in design and construction technologies that emulate their heirarchical properties by engineering real time chemical formation.”

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Author:Neri Oxman
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“Independently, new technologies can be pretty impactful to businesses. But the whole world in which businesses operate changes with the convergence of many new technologies. So we need to always be mindful of how technologies are converging and how that convergence may pressure us to adapt how we think about business and how we do business.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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